Thank you all for your suggestions.....as to why we have wine...it was a 
home brew made for a 25th reunion (I work at a University Museum) and the 
label is home made for the class with their class moto.  So the bottle and 
label are more important to than the actual wine.


(on a side note, at one of my first museum jobs I had the lovely task of 
emptying a ration kit from WWII.   Talk about a nasty job, cleaning out 
canned ham, canned eggs, canned juice, canned pecan rolls.  The cans were 
all bulging on all sides!!!)



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Marielle Fortier
Museum Registrar
Norwich University Museum
Northfield, Vermont
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>From: Cindy Boyer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Wine bottle storage
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:29:24 -0500
>
>I'm curious to know why the wine would be accepted into your collection.
>Is there a historic connection, connection with your mission?
>
>If you decide to keep them: What type of corks do they have? If they are
>actual cork, then storing it on the side keeps the cork wet. You may
>have to rotate them on a regular basis if there is sediment. If the
>corks are plastic, I don't think it much matters.
>
>If you are not accessioning it, I would drink or ditch.
>
>It will be interesting to see if anyone else has wine or other alcohol
>in their collection!
>
>
>Cindy Boyer
>Director of Museums and Education
>The Landmark Society of Western New York
>Rochester, NY
>(585) 546-7029 x12
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Marielle Fortier
>Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:40 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Wine bottle storage
>
>Hello,
>
>We recently received a donation that included two bottles of wine.  They
>
>still contain wine and were bottled in 2004 but the donor believes the
>wine
>is no good as it was a home brew concoction.  What is the collective
>wisdom
>of the group on storage of the bottles?  Should I ditch the wine? should
>I
>keep the wine, store them on their sides and put them in somthing in
>case
>they leak? My concern is the rest of the collection...but also know that
>
>aged wine is stored, on its side and in a climate controlled area.
>
>Thank you in advance for all of your responses.
>
>Marielle
>
>
>
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>Marielle Fortier
>Museum Registrar
>Sullivan Museum & History Center
>Northfield, Vermont
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